RIP Anthony Bourdain

[RedTeamGo!]

Paddock was a coward.

I’ll say it.

[Dom Heffner]

I think I've finally found something that works and doesn't muddle my brain (Zoloft). Finding my way into a doctoral program helped as well, as it gave me a solid target to work toward.

You say "muddle your brain" and it made me think of the video somewhere online...where they simulate one of the hundreds of diagnoses...

After watching it for 5 minutes, I was convinced one couldn't reason out of that.

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Paddock was a coward.

I’ll say it.

I'm glad you did, because now I can see how I feel when it happens.

I don't know if he was a coward or not, I know he was a murderer. Anything after that is peanuts.

[RedTeamGo!]

You say "muddle your brain" and it made me think of the video somewhere online...where they simulate one of the hundreds of diagnoses...

After watching it for 5 minutes, I was convinced one couldn't reason out of that.

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I'm glad you did, because now I can see how I feel when it happens.

I don't know if he was a coward or not, I know he was a murderer. Anything after that is peanuts.

I don’t see how locking yourself in a room where no one from the crowd of innocent unarmed people watching a concert can even see you and firing upon them with assault rifles is anything but a cowardly act.

[Dom Heffner]

I don’t see how locking yourself in a room where no one from the crowd of innocent unarmed people watching a concert can even see you and firing upon them with assault rifles is anything but a cowardly act.

Let's not confuse cowardice with strategy.

I mean, if I'm trying to kill as many as people as I can, I don't think it's cowardly to try and not get stopped...

The suicide part is where you would say he was cowardly- killing himself to avoid responsibility.

For me, mental illness is something where you harm yourself....I just don't think it is linked to harming others, I'd need to see something more than talking points from pro-gun organizations.

You often hear- "Mental illness is like pneumonia; left untreated it can kill you."

You don't often hear: "Mental illness is like pneumonia; left untreated it will turn you into a serial killer."

[westofyou]

Nothing makes an online wake/remembrance of a fine author and interesting man like a discussion that has absolutely nothing to do with his death taking over a thread about his death.

It's the most Redszonist thing ever

[Dom Heffner]

Nothing makes an online wake/remembrance of a fine author and interesting man like a discussion that has absolutely nothing to do with his death taking over a thread about his death.

It's the most Redszonist thing ever

Well, come on, discussions lead places...why is this so shocking that a suicide leads to talk related to suicides?

[westofyou]

Well, come on, discussions lead places...why is this so shocking that a suicide leads to talk related to suicides?

The relationship between cause and effect is askew in this discussion and where it's led has little to do with the death of Bourdain.

[Dom Heffner]

The relationship between cause and effect is askew in this discussion and where it's led has little to do with the death of Bourdain.

People can be wrong....people debate ideas.

Bourdain's death gets the conversation flowing....if Sea Ray picks up even one ounce it, it's worth it, and truthfully if I do, too, it is worth it.

[Sea Ray]

I don't have anything else to add to this. Remember, only one person here called Bourdain a coward and he hasn't participated in this conversation afterwards.

[BuckeyeRed27]

I don't have anything else to add to this. Remember, only one person here called Bourdain a coward and he hasn't participated in this conversation afterwards.

What does that make him?

[Redsfaithful]

This mental illness/mass shooter thing is something those on one side of the aisle think is true, I don't believe it is.

That's why this is a bizarre conversation. These mass shootings are more often than not politically motivated - Paddock was politically motivated.

Anyway, Bourdain is a great loss.

[Sea Ray]

That's why this is a bizarre conversation. These mass shootings are more often than not politically motivated - Paddock was politically motivated.

Anyway, Bourdain is a great loss.

I never heard of any political motive

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ry/1048920001/

[Redsfaithful]

I never heard of any political motive

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ry/1048920001/

Yeah, it didn't get much publicity, I wonder why

It took legal threats to get the police to release their investigation results like 8 months later.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist kind of guy, but this seems to have been legitimately suppressed, probably because Vegas interests wanted it out of the news altogether ASAP, but who knows, maybe it was suppressed because he was an alt-righter and sovereign citizen type. I wouldn't be shocked.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ents-explained

In the documents, those who encountered gunman Stephen Paddock say he expressed conspiratorial, anti-government beliefs characteristic of the far right

[Sea Ray]

Yeah, it didn't get much publicity, I wonder why

It took legal threats to get the police to release their investigation results like 8 months later.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist kind of guy, but this seems to have been legitimately suppressed, probably because Vegas interests wanted it out of the news altogether ASAP, but who knows, maybe it was suppressed because he was an alt-righter and sovereign citizen type. I wouldn't be shocked.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ents-explained

That screams mental illness more than political motivation to me. I maintain he was mentally ill.

[Larry Schuler]

Whether his political motivation qualifies as a mental illness is a complex topic for another thread.